Google, Twitter build SpeaktoTweet for Egyptians — Even if the Internet is down, people in Egypt can still use Twitter through a new service from Google and Twitter. — Google, in combination with Twitter and its recently acquired SayNow engineers, has released a service for tweeting without an Internet connection.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales Actually ‘Quite Small’ — Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab, the company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPad, isn't selling as well as the company has let on.In early December, Samsung announced it had sold 1 million, declaring that sales were going “faster than expected.”

Facebook's next big media move: Comments — Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs …

A refresh to the Documents List — Over the past year, many of you have been taking advantage of the ability to upload any file to Google Docs. With more files and of a variety of file types in one place, it becomes more difficult to organize and find what you need quickly.

Egypt's Net on Life Support — As of approximately 20:46 UTC, four hours after this blog was first published, Noor started disappearing from the Internet. They are completely unavailable at present as shown below — As we observed last week, Egypt took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the Internet.

Intel finds flaw in Sandy Bridge chipsets, halts shipments — As phenomenal as Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors have turned out to be, nothing in this world is truly perfect. Intel announced earlier this morning that it has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chipsets that accompany the new processor family.

Plentyoffish Hacked. — This is not a statement from Plentyoffish, i'll post something in the morning. This is a personal post about what it feels like to be hacked /extorted and the intense pressure and stress you are put under. Not to mention how annoying it is to have someone constantly harassing …

4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World — Canvas launches today for 4,000 or so lucky souls. — Seven year old 4chan, created by now-23 year old Christopher Poole, continues to delight and enrage the Internet. Major Internet memes were either created or spread on 4chan …

IBM's Office Suite Moves to the Cloud — I BM is getting into the cloud-based office productivity suite market, with the announcement of LotusLive Symphony, a product that offers users the ability to simultaneously collaborate on documents. It's certainly coming late to the party …

Apple changes its stance on water damage to iOS devices — As reported by igeneration.fr, Apple has amended its stance on water damage to iPods. As you can see below, Apple will allow some leeway in water damage, even if the red indicator has been triggered, so long as no corrosion is present.

iTunes films bust copyright laws — Russian films are being made available through Apple's iTunes service without the consent of the copyright holders, the BBC has learned. — The popular films, dating from the Soviet era, are being made available to download as smartphone apps.

The mistakes I made in Quora — So, I woke up early in Davos, Switzerland, excited to go skiing, and look at Techmeme and see that the Quora Reviewer has written a post which could be titled “Scoble stay off the Quora lawn.” — Ouch. — Then I look at email.

Speculation on the next MacBook Pro — Given how awesome the new MacBook Air is, I'm interested to see what Apple does with the other laptops in the lineup. — I've had three 13" laptops (including the first-generation and current-generation Airs) and two 15" laptops …

Google CEO Eric Schmidt searches for book deal — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who will be stepping down from the top job in April, will soon find out where his next check is coming from: New York publishers are bidding on the wonkish business leader's first book, according to several publishing industry insiders.